Asian art, prints and various minerals...the great accumulator! Some recent acquisitions - [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Sometimes a coin comes around that causes everything to click. This is one such coin, an imitative Attica tetrdrachm that I believe is from Gaza....
Here's and interesting AE Dirhem of Urtukids of Maridin, Nasir al-Din Urtuk Arslan (1201-1239), showing a centaur preparing to shoot an arrow into...
I found out that private companies, such as Fedex and DHL, must file a detailed customs form (Entry Summary) with Customs and Border Protection....
That's odd. It really doesn't make sense (no pun intended). I just received an item from Boston last weekend. The prohibition must apply to...
Ah yes....I do get the "point".
No, I am not saying that there should be a prohibition on the private ownership of antiquities. What I am saying is that the process of discovery...
Oh yes, very much. They are capable of almost everything, ranging from love, to jealousy, to hatred, to revenge - the whole range of behavior...
Yes, and a provenance is very important. A major problem over the past decade has been the theft of artifacts in Syria, Iraq, Yemen....
Another useful site is https://www.acsearch.info/home.html
Isn't it wonderful, how the ancient Greeks endowed their gods with very human characteristics and emotions as reflected in their mythology and...
I use Google search, using key words, then try to locate identical or nearly identical images. If it is a really exotic or rare coin, I try the...
An interesting analysis. Clearly the dies were used to the point where they were on the verge of complete destruction. Some of the...
Yes, the Roma Auction XIX Auction lots had very strong bids. I was somewhat surprised given our current economic circumstance and raging pandemic.
Hadrian, was one of the more "photogenic" emperors, numismatically speaking. Marcus Aurelius was another such emperor, whose coinage portraits...
Nice! What are the dimensions?
Here's a charming carving of a frog, which served as a weight two millennia ago, this one equaling 1 1/2 shekels. I purchased this artifact from...
"But the Alexandrians, without asking my permission - and once the thing was done I could not undo it - struck a coin with my head on the obverse...
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You're quite right that it does take time, sometimes a long time, to hear back from the USPS after filing a missing/delayed mail inquiry....
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